New Women Voices in 2020

Anila Noor is a refugee-activist, Research based in the Netherlands.  As a consultant, she also works with different institutions on designing engagement projects related to refugees and humanitarian situation. Noor has diverse experience working with national and international nonprofit organizations and causes namely dealing with peace-building efforts, refugee integration, and education special focus on women Rights. She has been active in advocating for refugee resettlement and social/political engagement of refugees in Europe. Noor is an active public speaker and has spoken at numerous Internationally significant Events.

Anila Noor,  initiated  New Women Connectors, a movement striving for mainstreaming the unheard voices of migrant and refugee women living across Europe. New Women Connectors is a perspective-shift to the refugee agenda and advocates inclusion than integration as a policy choice. The movement also helps newcomer refugee women to lift their spirits and make something of it. She found herself involved in the subjects of forced migration and identity crisis when she had to go through the same experience. Since, she has been working as a refugee social entrepreneur focusing on Forced Migration, Asylum, Refugee Policies and Advocacy for the Rights of Migrants. Noor is currently working on the subject of Receiving Refugees in Urban Settings: Narratives from the European Countries.